‘What minor injustices still live rent free in your head?’ – 22 unfair situations that have still got people proper fuming
12.
‘We weren’t allowed fast food as kids so could only stare at all the kids having their McDonalds parties or walking around with their balloons on a stick. Until one evening, all the power went out, which meant the electric hob and oven weren’t operational. After ten minutes of huffing and puffing, it was decided we would venture to Burger King for dinner and we were beside ourselves with excitement.
‘After getting ready to leave, we walk out into the street and as we get to the car, the street lights come back on as if by magic, then slowly lights started to come back on in the houses. We were marched back inside and given chips, beans and sausages. I was livid back then and I’m still livid about it now.’
–BananaHairFood
13.
‘When I was 18 I worked at ASDA and the supervisor called me in to the top office and said she had witnessed me selling alcohol without asking for ID. And they said, “Why? Why did you do this? This is very bad, why would you do this to me, to us, to YOURSELF?” Real melodramatic like that.
‘And anyway, I explained that I had known this person since I was a child and she’s three years older than me so the ID check seemed superfluous. They conferred at length and then still forced me to watch the mandatory 45 minute training video about my transgressions and made me sign a piece of paper saying that I had seen it and learned the error of my ways.’
–hipposaregood
14.
‘At the end of each term in my first year in Junior School, we had a Connect 4 competition. Just before we broke up for summer holidays the three winners were meant to have a champion of champions playoff, along with the “best loser”, who’d come runner up in all 3 finals.
‘On the day of the competition I, the Easter champion, had a dentist appointment, and came in late to find out that Christopher Baldwin had been crowned Champion of Champions in my absence, in a straight final matchup, as Mrs Silverman decided she wanted to do colouring in the afternoon instead. I’m about to turn 47, and I still get so gutted by it, 40 years later.’
–gjs78
15.
‘I was an avid reader, and would queue up for midnight releases of Harry Potter books. When the 5th book came out I finished it by lunchtime on Monday at school. Two girls in the year below were following me around, asking incessantly who died at the end, and whilst I refused to tell them they clearly saw my face change when they guessed the right character. They then complained to my teacher, who gave us a whole class talking to about not giving spoilers.’
–Escape92
16.
‘Tie-breaker to win a quiz when I was in Cubs: ‘What’s the largest stringed instrument?’
‘Me being a smartarse answered ‘grand piano’. The other team got the winning point with ‘double bass’.
‘I WAS TECHNICALLY CORRECT.’
–ScreamingDizzBuster
17.
‘I was thrown out of WH Smith for unplugging a ZX Spectrum that was on display. It wasn’t me. This was 42 years ago and I’m still annoyed at the injustice.’
–smoulderstoat
18.
‘School sports day, I was about 8. My Mum was one of the parents helpers and her job was to give out the medals after each race. I was in the sack race, it was a close race between me and another kid, but I won by like half a jump. My mum gave gold to the other kid because she didn’t want it to look like favouritism.
‘Cheers Mum.’
–domsp79
19.
‘A class detention in 1992. A few dickheads messing about and the whole class had to stay behind for an hour after school. It was RE as well, so not even a subject anyone gives a fuck about.’
–quite_acceptable_man
20.
‘When I was younger than 10, I won a radio competition where I won a pair of trainers. I never got the trainers. I made a promise to always keep my promises, especially to children.’
–ocelotrevs
21.
‘In year five we went on a trip to a reservoir and water treatment plant. The guide asked ‘where does your water come from?’. I answered ‘the sea’ as we had learnt about the water cycle. He said I was wrong and that it comes from the tap.’
–rebmaesiuol
22.
‘I must been about 9, I was talking about the Amazon rainforest and mentioned it being in South America. My scout leader laughed at me and told me it was in Africa. I tried to argue with her but she was insistent. I wish I stood up for myself more and made her Google it or something!’
–amberthezombie
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